PC Mag: Four cores are not always better than two. But this time, they are.
I'm here in San Francisco with Qualcomm's S4 Pro development tablet, the $1,299 showcase for its new quad-core APQ8064 chip. The APQ8064 is basically a top-of-the-line smartphone, doubled: it has four 1.5Ghz, 28-nanometer Krait cores instead of the two in phones like the Samsung Galaxy S III and the HTC One X.
Qualcomm’s latest SoC for Windows laptops is now official, and it’s called the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 Compute Platform.
An unlikely competitor has entered the field.
Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are unpleased with Nvidia buying Arm. Qualcomm is the most resolute to see the acquisition blocked.
